Manuscriptorium is a system for collecting and making accessible on the internet information on historical book resources, linked to a virtual library of digitised documents. The Manuscriptorium service is financed by the National Library of the Czech Republic and managed by AiP Beroun s.r.o.
Heidelberg University Library has contributed its most valuable collection of medieval and early modern manuscripts to the Manuscriptorium project. More...
The National Library of Romania has made a contribution to the Manuscriptorium project in the form of old Romanian books dating from the XVI and XVII centuries. More...
The objectives of the project are the integration of European sources facilitating access to written cultural heritage, the creation of a network of institutions within a European framework and the building up of a European digital manuscript library on the Manuscriptorium platform. This will establish pre-conditions for the affiliation of further partners, including those from beyond the borders of Europe..
The National Library of the Republic of Moldova in Kishinev is a new Manuscriptorium partner, contributing the Book of Sermons by Metropolitan Varlaam in an interesting edition dating from the year 1768, published in Romanian in the Cyrillic alphabet; the style of this important work of old Romanian literature is remarkably accomplished.
In connection with the exhibition entitled "Codex Gigas – the Devil's Bible: Secrets of the Largest Book in the World", the Royal Library in Stockholm has provided the National Library of the Czech Republic with a digital copy of this scarce manuscript. Access to it via Manuscriptorium is a further step in the process of integration of the European cultural heritage. Codex Gigas
Manuscriptorium’s SW configuration was updated today. Users of OAI-PMH services should update their clients’ settings.
The National Library of Turkey in Ankara (http://www.mkutup.gov.tr/) has become a new major contributor to Manuscriptorium. On the basis of an agreement concluded between this library and the National Library of the Czech Republic, some 10 thousand records relating to Turkish manuscripts will be made available in Manuscriptorium in the initial phase; this means that the National Library of Turkey is presently the most active foreign contributor to the development of the union manuscript catalogue.
For demonstration purposes, we have made available a small (but nevertheless very interesting) selection from the holdings of digitised manuscripts, old printed books and maps presently accessible via the Manuscriptorium database.Details...
The Open Catalogue is a freely accessible facility for easy access to detailed information on historical book resources, a finding guide to existing original documents as well as their digital copies.
The bulk of the latest digitised documents are old 16th century printings, mainly in the Czech language, from the holdings of the National Library. Worthy of special mention amongst the manuscripts from this source are the so-called Manual of Václav Koranda, the oldest extant cumulative text from th...
Heidelberg University Library has contributed its most valuable collection of medieval and early modern manuscripts to the Manuscriptorium project. The 848 manuscripts in the German language of the 9th to the 17th centuries, comprising approximately 200,000 pages and 6,500 miniatures, belong to the ...
Printed books from the holdings of the National Library of the Czech Republic represent a significant proportion of the latest digitised documents. These are partly of Czech origin, including books from the printing presses of Mikuláš Bakalář, Jiří Melantrich senior of Aventýn and Daniel Adam of Vel...
In its historical collections, the Moravian Regional Library in Brno holds a series of manuscripts from the so-called Mikulov Dietrichstein Library. The extensive holdings of the Mikulov collection on Czech, particularly Hussite, themes have been a focus of interest for all leading Czech researchers...
The National Library of Romania has made a contribution to the Manuscriptorium project in the form of old Romanian books dating from the XVI and XVII centuries. These are items of outstanding cultural, historical and artistic value. Most of these treasures are religious works, but amongst them there...
The most extensive batch of the latest digitised documents are taken from the holdings of the National Library of the Czech Republic. Amongst the manuscripts, in addition to theological texts, liturgical codices are well represented, mostly those used by the Benedictine Convent of Saint George at Pr...
The most numerous collection of new digitised manuscripts comes from the holdings of the National Museum Library in Prague. A number of these codices are important from the point of view of the history of book illustration, others contain homiletic and historical texts relating to the Hussite era (e...
Most of the latest digitised documents are held today by the National Museum Library in Prague. These manuscripts include, amongst others, three further texts from Old Czech Annals and works in Latin by Jan Hus. The first collection of codices containing copies from a great variety of sources and pr...
